Not that he was looking past Creighton or anything, but when Kansas State coach Bruce Weber broke down the Wildcats’ NCAA Tournament bracket for his team last week, he struck up a psychological ploy that proved prophetic.
The top seed in their bracket, Virginia, he said, is “really not that good.”
His assistants looked at him like he was crazy, he said in one telling of the story on Saturday, a day after K-State advanced by beating Creighton. And his assistants threw stuff at him in another version.
So when he called the team together late Friday after the seismic upset of the top-seeded Cavaliers by UMBC, now the only 16th seed to beat a No.